and given what a fascist kind of psychoses those are, that is rather bad news.

I think: nothing.
So again: why is it so terrible to have a registry for knowing which person is associated with a telephone number?
What are your use-cases of using a phone where that knowledge would affect you negatively?

... ANY internet access.
Of course just to protect the children. That all internet access will then be linked to the user personally is just an unavoidable side-effect.
But we need to think of the children!

Registering your ID with your number is totally unacceptable - why?

... if a surveillance camera was installed in every room of your house!
Would that not be superplusgood?

Anthropic (and other LLM providers) have an utterly appalling subscription model where they basically let you pay without knowing at all what you get for the payment. There is no information whatsoever anywhare on their web pages, in the pages where they describe plans, nor will they provide it when asked on the support channel, on the number of requests, number of input/output tokens or anything measurable per unit of time they would promise to give you. All they tell you is that you get k times more for the more expensive subscription without ever telling you more of what.
This borders on fraud, really and is an utterly unacceptable way of doing business that really should be outlawed by regulators.
So now they tell you one more thing you do not get for your money, but still give no information about what your get.

and change codebase layout and structure, prompts and assets just enough to make it look sufficiently different.

There are no routers manufactured in the US. Nil, none, zero.
Some are assembled in the US but that does not change the fact that electronic componets come from Taiwan, Vietnam, China or other countries.
So once all those routers stocked are bought up, people in the US will remain with old, unpatched and probably increasingly insecure routers.

Brilliant move!

... similar to the exquisitely stupid questions "why do we need to learn X in school" which is surprisingly often asked, especially by people who visit some gym regularly to run without getting anywhere or lifting a weight just to put it down again.

Well, if you keep asking stupid questions instead of actually putting in the effort to learn something (does not really matter what though maths, biology, physics and chemistry are always a good choice), your brain rot will proceed and you will ask even stupider questions in a year.

has polluted Colorado that severely to make their brain cells rot away to such an extend?

and the idiots in the MAGA bubble will cheer for him to stubbornly force them to pay.
This is the true real-live Idiocracy, generously seasoned with fascism, a pinch of racism and mixed with idiocy.

I tried this out and I am just stunned by how terrible, badly implemented, utterly devoid of anything cool or interesting this is.
Any random place on the last-millenium Secondlife site is orders of magnitude better, more interesting, more engaging.

That this utter trash is still around is a miracle to me: who actual goes there and enjoys it?

and was quite surprised to find that there is no "prove you are a BOT" captcha on that site.

Why is it still not possible to edit a post and fix a typo on /. om 2026? Is that whole site vibe coded with ELIZA?

and was quite surprised to find that there is no "prove you are a bit" captcha on that site.

The only way to fund this would be to finally have billionaires and huge corporations contribute their fair share, and they have been working hard to influence politics and media to prevent this. Just glance at the US: the idiocracy will make the opposite happen.
Just listen to and observe the likes of Thiel and Musk. Their egomaniac, narcissistic way to influence politics through their financial power, which exceeds the financial power of most countries on Earth will cause social turmoil, civil and non civil wars before anything like "universal basic income" will happen in countries like the US ... or the UK.